MEL ODOM

La Atalaya es una tranquila villa en la que se yergue una nueva Iglesia capaz de austar a las religiones más establecidas de Westmarch. Pues ¿quién puede refutar los milagros, los sueños cumplidos cuando puedes verlos con tus propios ojos? Pero algo siniestro se esconde tras esa nueva deidad y su todopoderoso profeta.

El camino oscuro. Desde el principio de los tiempos, las huestes angelicales de los Altos Cielos y las hordas demoníacas de los Ardientes Infiernos han librado una guerra por el destino de toda la creacion. Esa guerra ha llegado ahora al reino de los mortales... y ni Hombre ni Demonio ni Angel alguno saldra indemne...Diablo.Darrick Lang vuelve a su hogar. Hace años que dejo la ciudad de Bramwell para recorrer el mundo como soldado de fortuna y campeon del reino. Mas Bramwell ya no es como el la dejo. Algo oscuro y terrible ha atrapado a los ciudadanos, algo muy antiguo y paciente, que enreda a los inocentes en una telaraña de maldad y profana la mismisima tierra. Ahora, ese mismo poder reclama a Darrick... y su unica esperanza podria residir en caminar por la misma peligrosa senda de condenacion.Un original cuento sobre espadas, brujeria y un conflicto eterno, basado en el exitoso juego de ordenador de Blizzard Entertainment.

BEWARE THE SCORPIONS STINGRashida bint Tariq bin Feroze al-Nazari steals through the deadliest shadows in the world: Dubai, in the Caliphate of Arabia. In a merciless land policed by the Caliphate Guard, under a government that exacts harsh penalties against any shadowrunner, Rashida has to break into the Saqr Tower and get out with the intel shes getting paid to retrieve. Hired to steal a black op software package from Raqmu Enterprises, Rashida calls on her team of shadowrunners to help with the smash-and-grab. And this run isnt just for the nuyen. The people behind Raqmu Enterprises killed Rashidas family. Failure isnt an option. But death doesnt scare Rashida. A Scorpion shaman, she fights for her life every day against the spirit that grants her the power to destroy her enemies, but ultimately seeks to consume her very essence. Amid the treacherous desert sands, Rashida must battle enemies within and without if she is going to survive

Secrets can kill."You were afraid of my father....Thats why you had him murdered. You were of afraid of him, and Im going to teach you to be afraid of me." Just weeks after his fathers horrific death, Matt Hunter confronts the murderous Lucius Creighdor and vows revenge. But battling this vicious foe is treacherous for Matt -- and his steadfast league of friends. Yet without Pauls financial wizardry, Emmas scientic genius, Gabriels cunning street smarts, and the historical expertise of Narada Chaudhary, Matt knows he will be lost. When Creighdor unleashes a mind-mutilating creature that can control a persons will, Hunters League must pull together by drawing on their individual strengths, all the time wondering if theyve stumbled upon one terrifying secret too many -- and one blood-thirsty monster too much.

As Templar Simon Cross fights to lead the hunted survivors of the demon surge toward salvation, time and supplies run short. Simon must penetrate the dark secrets of the demons -- as well as those of his partner in peril, Leah Creasey -- to keep his charges safe. But Leahs organization wont surrender their knowledge easily, even as new technology emerges from the Goetia Manuscript that could help Simons cause. Warren Schimmer, linked to one of the darkest of the hellspawn -- the demonic Lilith -- is himself also targeted by infernal forces. No longer able to hide, Warren must emerge as a leader and turn a ragged band of Cabalists into an army. But when a vicious weapon that uses dreams against the human survivors of the city draws the Templars, the Cabalists, and the Hunters into the same arena, will they join forces...or turn against one another?

The trilogy that began in Exodus continues: 2024: Four years after the Demons opened the planar rift known as the Hellgate, mankinds desperate struggle to survive continues. Simon Cross, expatriate of the secret Templar order, works to find and transport survivors out of the ruined city. Hiding within Londons Underground system, Simon is raising an army to fight against the encroaching Darkness. Now, he battles the monsters that roam the city and fends off a jealous Knight who plans to take Simon down...all while striving to reunite the divided Templar forces. Warren Schimmer, a Cabalist who is magically linked to a powerful demon, searches for Goetia. Also known as the Lesser Key of Solomon, this ancient artifact could provide the forces of good or evil with an edge in the ongoing war. Standing in his path is Simon Cross. Warren has made a bargain with his Demon lord for survival and the promise of vengeance against the persuasive Templar...but a Demons promise is made to be broken.

LONDON, 2038 The once-great city lies in ruins. A massive gash in the fabric of our reality roils against the horizon as it blends into a permanently darkened sky. The world as we know it has come to an end. Demons, the visions of our nightmares, walk the Earth. Mankind, driven in retreat to the sanctuary of the Underground, struggles to survive the Hellish apocalypse. Among the survivors are those who foresaw the coming of the darkness, those who see it as an opportunity to improve the standing of man, and those who seek revenge for what was lost. All are now banding together in the shadows, arming themselves with futuristic weapons and arcane spells designed for one purpose -- to battle the demonic hordes and take back their world.

PLAYED FOR A SUCKER...When ace shadowrunner Jack Skater leads his team of commandos in a raid on an elven ocean freighter, things get a little sticky. Yakuza hitmen crash the party, and then a Japanese shaman whips up a titanic sea creature just to make sure nobody gets out alive. Now, having escaped with his troops by the skin of their teeth, Skater wants to find out who set him up.But it isnt going to be easy. Because the runners are stuck up to their pointy ears in a sinister super-scheme that involves Skaters ex-wife, two elven gene corporations, a ruthless mafioso named McKenzie, and stolen data disks containing secrets worth killing for. Its a high-tech mega-mess with no way out. And as a ghastly virus hits Seattle, unleashing hordes of homicidal cannibals onto the streets, Skater and company have to bring in some heavy artillery just to stay alive....

A MEGACORP BACKSTAB!Argent is the best shadowrunner in the biz...with one flaw: hes got a conscience. Thats why he cant leave a chummer hanging. Only Andi Sencio is more than just a friend. Shes his former partnerand lover. And now shes in the deepest drekpot of her life. Heading an op on a datasnatch turned bad, shes been stranded by the megacorp she works forand targeted for flatlining by two more. Unless Argent gets to her first...Recruiting a top-notch team for the exfiltration shadowrun, Argent is risking it allhis money, his reputation, and his lifefor the woman who once walked away from him. Its suicide mission through high-caliber hell. But thats never stopped the steel-armed street samurai before...

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWSOn the trail of her missing brother, shaman Rashida bint Tariq bin Feroze al-Nazari travels to South Africa to interrogate a corp executive who may have actually seen Qasim. But the meeting turns into a trap she barely escapes, and Rashida realizes she and her shadowrunning team have stumbled onto something much deeper than a rash of missing children.Their search for answers will take them from the glittering neon towers of Dubai to the harsh desert wilderness of the Arabian Caliphate. Rashida and her team scour every clue they find, whether it is in the deep African jungle, the artificial world of the Matrix, or the infinite astral plane, to uncover whos masterminding this plotand stop them before it can be put into action.And all the while, Rashida must contend with Scorpion, the insect spirit who came to her when she cried out for revenge against those who had killed her father and stolen her brother, and now lives within her in an uneasy alliance. Vicious, cunning, and deadly, Scorpions power always comes with a priceand if Rashida isnt careful, she may end up paying it before she has the chance to save her brotherand punish the ones who took him.

IN HIS BROTHERS FOOTSTEPS Harley Rassor is a simple farm boy in a complex universemore than happy to work the land of planet Slewis with his father. His restless older brother left to join the elite mercenary corps, Ables Aces and paid with his life. Now, Harleys father wants him to join the fightand learn what happened to his brother. What he learns is that the Aces are in turmoil. His instructortough-as-nails Lieutenant Livia Hawkealso happens to be his brothers ex-lover. Rumors of payoffs and suspected setups are commonplace. And the entire unit is in danger of being disbanded. Then pirates launch a devastating raid on the Rim Collections resources, sparking an all-out fight that will put the Aces in the thick of battleand Harley will learn that there are worse things in war the death

NEVER TELL YOUR SECRETS TO A DEAD MANSomebody just aced the dragon Dunkelzahn, and one of the mysterious links to the assassination is flat on his back in slab city: a double agent with two identitiesboth out of commission. Now hes the most-wanted stiff in Tacoma.Jack Skaters mission? Sleaze past the high-tech funeral security, outwit the Knight Errants, cop the stiff, and keep it on ice long enough to get the answer to the shadowrunners life-and-death question: whats so hot about a stone-cold corpse?And that isnt all thats dropped Skater hoop-deep in drekthe UCAS Secret Service is also after the dead mans secretand the government blue crews are prepared to terminate anyone in sight to get to it first...

THE SHADOWS ARE EVEN DARKER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIXTH WORLDBased on Harebrained Schemes latest installment for their Shadowrun Returns game and written by long-time Shadowrun author Mel Odom, Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a wild ride into the seamy underbelly of on of the Sixth Worlds most legendary cities.On a mission to find the mentor who saved you from the streets of Seattle years ago, this epic quest leads to a world of criminal syndicates, corporate machinations, darkest magic, and a plot set in motion decades ago that is about to be completedand if it isnt stopped in time, it could spell the destruction of Hong Kong itselfand the rest of the Sixth World soon after

LOST SECRETS ARE THE DEADLIEST SECRETS OF ALL... Shadowrunner Katar Hawke knows the score on the streets. Every job is to be executed swiftly and simplyno muss, no fuss, and with as little help as possible. But when an extraction of a seemingly ordinary grad student from a Central American dig goes south in a big way, Hawke has to keep them both alive while he figures out what hes stumbled intoand how to get out of it in one piece. But nothing about this shadowrun is remotely ordinary. The student, Rachel Gordon, has unearthed an artifact linking the Sixth World and the long gone, magical Second World. The discovery sets off a lethal chain reaction of feuding megacorporations and cold-blooded killers who will do anything to get their hands on her and what she knows. Caught in the hardest of hard places, Hawke must break his cardinal rule and assemble his own shadowrunning team to survive whats coming at him. But in the end, it all comes down to one question: will he sell out Rachel to the highest bidder, or join her on a quest that could change the face of the Sixth World forever?